October Afternoon Father's Day Card

HI Everyone

I finally got to play with products from my shop! Yahooo!!  Last night was the first Crop night at the store and 6 awesome women came out for dinner and cropping! Some great layouts we made by all!!  My first project I made was a Father's Day card for my Hubs with the Rocket Age collection from October Afternoon.  I LOVE this line! Unfortunately I did not pre-shop in my own store and my accessories were bought up with in the first hour! Lucky for me, my friend Kari bought one of the packages I didn't so she let me pinch the cute vintage "moon shoes" tag.  The "to the moon" is a RUBBER charm! I LOVE these! The robot is a chipboard sticker from the 12x12 sheet. LOVE this collection! I've got a re-order in for it, so if you missed it too, panic not! It should be back on the shelves next week!

FYI: I've got some great LO's to post! YES, projects! WAhooo! I had a fab night surrounding by inspiring women! 2 double layouts and 1 single! Plus the card, that is a totally record for me at a crop, plus I was still working!

A lookie at my shop

 My American Crafts Display

 My Bombshell stamps! Seriously smokin' hot!

 Tonights diner! LOL! I'm open till 8pm so the family is coming here to eat with me! The shop smells amazing right now! Slow cooker totally fits in with my 50's Retro theme!

Hand made necklace from a BC designer! Gorgeous and would make a great teacher gift!!

Hi Everyone

Thought I would post a few pictures of the inside of the shop!  If your local stop on by to see it yourself! Tomorrow I'll post some more!

FYI 5 spots only left for tomorrows diner crop!

CROP this FRIDAY!!!

This Friday is the first official CROP at The Inked Stamper! (Saturday's fell through due to a very tired store owner and late late bookings)  This one will NOT be canceled! $20 gets you a fun night with half a 6 ft table, diner, drinks and prizes!  Bring your supplies and crop away...but if you forget some, don't worry, the shop will be open and you'll get a discount that night only!!


For now, I will leave you with a link to the AMERICAN CRAFTS blog! They ROCK out loud and I have all their newest collections in the shop...plus over 45 fonts of THICKERS!  Go have fun drooling on their site and go do the Blog Hop from June 14 to see sneak peeks of their new link coming out Amy Tangerine.


PS: I'll actually be able to start my new CLASS projects for the shop! So stay tuned next week for sneak peeks and Sign Ups!  

Store is OPEN!

Hi Everyone
The Store opening on Saturday was a great success! Thank you to everyone who helped out; Viv, Sandra and Brianne, I would have been lost with out you!  To all the girls behind the scenes as well for helping me set up: Melissa, Kari, Annette, Rachel, Candace, Sandra, Lance and Viv.  And thank you for those who came out, I REALY appreciate you making it out to my new little store!!!
For those of you there, you know that my computer system was not up and working yet, thank you for your patience with my "Flintstone Style Receipts!"  This week I will be working on getting the system up and running to allow for a smoother transaction at the till.  Plus I'm hoping to have some time to design some classes for you all.  I want to play with all the new products too!

PS The biggest thanks of all goes to my amazing husband who spent just as much time in my shop building it, painting it, helping me and cleaning it for my opening!  Not to mention the gorgeous cake he bought for my opening pictured above! What a guy!!!
I'm am a lucky girl to have such wonderful people in my life!

Shop OPENS this Saturday plus my first CROP!!!

The Inked Stamper Store
250 16 Renault Crescent
St Albert
(780)458 2422

• Opens Saturday, June 11, 11-5pm
• Free Package of Thickers for first 40 customers with $30 purchase
• Door Prizes
• Celebration Crop: $10  7-midnight: includes snacks, drinks and prizes! Reserve your spot today!

My Sign!!!

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Wahoo, my sign is up! Every step is making this feel more real, and this one made me jump up and down! This is REALY happening, I own a SCRAPBOOK STORE!  My sign is made from custom cut vinyl from one of my suppliers for the shop!  Then my hub's and I just applied it to my board last night. He is a Canadian Designer as well! And I'm very proud to be carrying his line in the shop.  I will have a selection of  his awesome vinyl right at the store and also be able to take custom orders.  He specializes in funky, retro vinyl with a tattoo theme, but he carries a great line for you non-tattoo folks too!  The quality of the vinyl is amazing, and the colors are very vibrant! It was very easiest vinyl I have every applied, no sticking to the back sheet, it just peeled right off!

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Progress Report and NEW Opening date!!!

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Sorry I know a lot of you do not have facebook, and I've been updating my The Inked Stamper Store page on FB everyday as it is quick and easy...I even do it from my iphone half the time cause I am just so darn busy! So first thing first: DATE CHANGE for the opening!!! The new opening date will be June 11.  I've had too many things just go wrong that it had to be moved back one week.  So mark your calendars all; JUNE 11!!  Bring along your Mom, Sisters, Friends and come and shop! Free gift with purchase for the first 40 customers! Plus door prizes as well.  More to come next week.

I'm stuck home today getting the AC repaired, so while I have a minute, I thought I better update my poor lonely blog! 

OK Progress Report:

• Reno's almost done
• Racking FINALLY came in correctly Monday afternoon, so I'm able to put up stock
• Orders are coming in daily and being stocked
• I'm learning my new program to run my till....on going! Next week I'll be entering all stock.

This is just a VERY simplified list, but I don't want to bore you with all the behind the scene goop! Hope to see you at the opening, I've added a few sneak peeks for ya too.  If you are on FB, go LIKE my store page to keep up on the progress reports and write your 2 cents on the wall!

Almost....tick tock tick tock

18 Days to go!!!! The Inked Stamper will be opening in 18 days! AH!!!

I'm still busy busy busy! Yesterday I ordered my business cards and some other supplies include the picture above which will be my car magnet. Plus we moved some of the racking into the shop; that was fun! Today I have a POS meeting (Point of Sales, but can you guess what I call it..P.O.S..come on people, BAD acronym ) and then I'm ordering my computer to use said pos system on.  Let me tell you this has been my most stressful purchase for the whole shop! So outa' my league! Computers, BLAH!

Hope you all are having a beautiful spring day; once my supplies start rolling in, I'll start posting sneak peeks.  Oh FYI if you don't check on my store FB page; my hub's finished my beautiful glittery floors! 5 lbs of Glitter, let me tell you, he is still shimmery! LOL! Great look on a man!

Progress Report

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Are you following The Inked Stamper Store of Facebook?  Go LIKE it today and keep up to date on the what nots of opening my shop.
SO what have I been up to while I'm not blogging this week?

• Phone/internet was installed: 780 458 2422 will be the shops number
• We painted and installed the slot wall
• My hubs did the first few steps of the floors... do you know what 5lbs of Glitter looks like? Ask my hubs! LOL!
• I've put in so many big order this week; I have not moved from my chair in my kitchen in 4 days, except to go to the shop and to teach a scrap class to my boys grade 1 class ( cause I wasn't busy enough LOL!) I'm SO excited, I just order a whole bunch of La Blanche Stamps! Gorgeous new stamp company, they are silicone! Another order that made me squeal , 100 THICKERS! 
• My racking is here and being held at the delivery center as my floors are being done we can't step on them! LOL!

Now go an like my FB page!

I'm hoping to find time to start making some projects soon! I wanna PLAY!!!! 

Got the keys!

Hi ya!
Got the keys to the shop yesterday. To say I'm swamped with deadlines is an understatement! I'm posting from my iPhone about to head into a meeting with my landlords. Sad thing is I actually have projects to post but no time!! Don't count me out! I'll be posting again soon! Just need to finish some deadlines this week. Wish me luck! I need it

TradeShow Table Saturday

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Tomorrow 10am-3pm at Father Jan School, 15 Mission Ave in St Albert, I will have a table at the Trade Show there. Come take a sneak peek of my items before my shop opens June 4.  $2 entry fee includes a raffle ticket; bring the kids down for lunch, there will be hotdog and pops to purchase.

I'll have a lot of Thickers, Cosmo Cricket's new lines Social Club and Up Cycle; Creative Imaginations Super Hero collection, American Crafts Campy Trails, and Theresa Collins On the Edge plus some Imaginisce Itop tool, Irock tool and accessories!!

Hope to see you there

Happy Easter

Happy Easter Everyone!  Go join my Facebook Store Page HERE and add your favourite title for an Easter layout

May none of your chocolate go to your hips today!

I LOVE American Crafts

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Yesturday was an awesome today! A package was waiting for me when I got home, and this is what was inside! Look at all this beautiful gorgeous products from American Crafts!!!  This was a welcome gift they sent me for the new store! How sweet is that!  I wish I knew how to display this better for a better picture! But trust me, it's all gorgeous! As I'm sure you can tell by all my exclamation points!!!! ;)

It's the twins Superhero Party today, so gotta run, I'll (try) to post some party pics tomorrow, including my cake-pops! Lets just say now, those little suckers are not as easy to make as I thought!

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Kimono Kids

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I cased this card today off an Sandi Maciver, you can see hers HERE.  It's made with the Kimono Kids stamps set in the main SU! catalogue , and it's one of my favorites! How cute are they???  I can't wait to get my Copic Markers to color them in.  Coloring is not my strong suit, but from what I've been watching and reading, Copic are supposed to make coloring easier...and more forgiving then water based markers.  

Today I'm making Superhero Cake Pops for the twins Superhero Academy Party tomorrow! Hope I have as much success as I did with their cake!  But this is going to get MESSY! I decided to make them while the boys are at school, think that I'll make a big enough mess on my own! Wish me luck!!!!

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Rock n' Roll

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 This is of my niece rockin' out at her Auntie Kim's house a few summers ago playing Rock Band.  She is totally channelling her inner Rock Star!  The journaling/title is from the Kiss lyrics God gave Rock n' Roll to you, which I so forgot was from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure! Apparently that movie is really stuck in my head! (I did a layout about a month ago with B & T )

Except for the two Imaginisce pink flowers, I made all the other ones.  I particularly like the hot pink foil ones.  The pictures do them no justice!  They are made from of sheet of thick, super shiny foil, I punch them out with two different size scallop punches (FYI this is GREAT to sharpen your punches), I flipped them over and scored with a ruler and bone folder tip from every valley in the scallop to the center; then with one I used the 1/16th hand held punch to punch out the holes, and the other I used the eyelet setter on the Crop a dile to dry emboss the circles.

I worked with new IRock Tool from Imaginisce on this one as well, BUT I'm thinking trying out a new tool at midnight..not so wise.  I can see the potential in this tool, but round 1, did not go down too well! LOL!